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Legal because I have no doubt they can create a tax or fee on anything they want to.

Hypocritical because Rhode Island claims to also be in favor of "Net Neutrality"
http://www.providencejournal.c...

The research funding dictated who had a voice.

And those with the voice, can get more research funding. Is not it nice, when the government is picking winners?

Climate science has a harder problem to address, but is as rigorous as is reasonable in the circumstances.

I wonder, what you mean by "rigorous" here. Lysenko, for example, rigorously persecuted adherents of the reactionary Mendelian genetics. And, when their activities endangered the favor he held with the government, denounced them as "enemies of the people".

Something that could never happen in a free country. Right?

Is it really a reliable scientific theory, if police are called on to silence its opponents?

His death is being treated as a suicide.

The marathon was on the 15th, and he was last seen on the 16th. So unless someone saw his ghost, it is, in fact, unreasonable to suspect that he was dead before the bombings. He did, however, disappear shortly before he was accused, so it isn't clear whether his actual death was in response to the accusation or not.

Looks like they made the payment now. They are likely still in trouble in the long run, but seem to have fixed this problem temporarily. http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/05/ri-gov-chafee-3.html